excel crash and frozzen

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excel 2000 crashes when i try to open any file, the mesage "system is dangerously low on resourses" apears and pc frozzen. ctrl + alt + del doesn't work to close the aplications or restart the computer. I already install officce 2000 premium again, from the cd-rom, and the packs from microsoft web site, but this did not fix the problem. What can I do? I using windows millennium edition
Thanks a lot
Celio
 
This has little to do with the excel program, and more to do with your computer itself. If you're using too much memory (RAM) than your computer can handle, it will do this... also tends to happen a lot more with Win ME and Win XP Home because of the monstrously large amount of RAM both OS's take up.
 
celiocosan said:
excel 2000 crashes when i try to open any file, the mesage "system is
dangerously low on resourses" apears and pc frozzen. ctrl + alt + del
doesn't work to close the aplications or restart the computer. I
already install officce 2000 premium again, from the cd-rom, and the
packs from microsoft web site, but this did not fix the problem. What
can I do? I using windows millennium edition. Thanks a lot.
Celio
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WinME, as a member of the Win9x family, is a resource-bound OS.
Resources (as I poorly understand them) are stack pages that contain
pointers to system components. Resources have nothing to do with
installed RAM. Free resources by:
Minimum files and icons on the desktop
Minimum files in the root of C:, i.e., when looking at C:\ . Only
system files and directories should be here
No wallpaper, screensaver.
Keep Temp Internet Files emptied.
Keep C:\Windows\temp emptied.
Run 16bit color rather than 24 or 32 bit color.
Disable the Active Desktop is big help.
Disable desktop themes.
Reduce the number of installed fonts to 30-40.
In VBA, keep worksheets free of embedded objects. Release objects in
code when finished ( =nothing).
Eliminating background programs or multitasking can help if those
programs themselves consume resources.
Eliminate the Office Startup, mso.exe, and the startup bar from
start/run/type: msconfig..[enter]/select startup tab, uncheck the box.
IMO, these are useless resource hogs.

I know there are others, but this is a start on freeing resources.

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